property window of local file or folder?

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Is there any way in java that I can see property window of local file in my Java Swing program?

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Do you mean that you want to open this dialog from a Swing application or do you want to recreate this dialog with Swing components? — Guillaume Polet, Jul 03 '12 at 07:39
This is potentially a WIN32 subject (uses shell32.dll as I think) — , Jul 03 '12 at 07:39
@Guillaume Polet: I want to open this dialog in swing application using java code. Is there any way to access that dialog? — Ronak Jain, Jul 03 '12 at 07:42
*"Is there any way to access that dialog?"* Not on *nix or OS X, Which begs the question, why use Java? Note that it is possible to find some of the details seen in the Windows file info. pop-up using the `File` class. — Andrew Thompson, Jul 03 '12 at 07:53
This [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7985122/show-explorers-properties-dialog-for-a-file-in-windows) talks about doing this in python. — Guillaume Polet, Jul 03 '12 at 08:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

There's no standard Swing API for opening that dialog but you can still do it in Java using JNA which allows you to access native shared libraries with only Java code.

@Guillaume Polet has posted a link to a similar question with a Python implementation. You would have to get that code and translate it to Java. Alternatively, here's a C# example.

With the JNA tutorial and those examples you should be able to write a Java implementation.

property window of local file or folder?

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